All you Bad Brains fans can rejoice as the band have posted a 30 second clip of their new track Jah People Make The World Go Round on their myspace page.
The song first surfaced on the Henry Rollins show but this is the first official taste of the album Build A Nation which is due out in June.
Motion City Soundtrack have announced details of their upcoming album.
Even If It Kills Me will be released in July and was produced by Ric Ocasek who has worked with Bad Brains, The Cars, Pink Spiders and Weezer. The track listing for the album is:
1. Fell In Love Without You
2. This Is For Real
3. It Had To Be You
4. Last Night
5. Calling All Cops
6. Can’t Finish What You Started
7. The Conversation
8. Broken Heart
9. Hello Helicopter
10. Where I Belong
11. Point Of Extinction
12. Antonia
13. Even If It Kills Me
Make sure you check out our interview with the band if you haven’t already by clicking here.
Sage Francis has made his entire new album, Human The Death Dance, available to hear by stream.
The Epitaph signed rapper releases his new album next week and will be heading out on tour with a live band, Alias, Buddy Wakefield and Buck 65 to support the album.
You can check out his album, which features production from Ant, Buck 65, Reanimator and more on his myspace.
The final version of the single Got Up This Morning‘s video is online too:
Linkin Park will be playing a one off show at the Astoria on May 3rd as their warm up to Download Festival in June.
You can check out a teaser of their new album by clicking here.
In other Download news, The Hedrons have been confirmed on the bill for the Tuborg stage on the 8th of June, making it the second time in a row the band have played the festival.
Alex James has spoken about upcoming Blur activity which is seemingly set to include estranged guitar player Graham Coxon.
The bass player claimed that the band wanted to give it one last go together, adding that if the reunion doesn’t work out, they will simply split. If the plans for a summer studio session go ahead, it will be their first album since 2003’s Think Tank, which saw Coxon leave the band.
James said:
“We’re all heading into the studio together this summer – Graham’s coming too. We’re gonna see if we’ve still got it. If not, I think we’ll just call it a day.”
Green Day have released their cover of John Lennon’s Working Class Hero as an iTunes download, to promote Amnesty International’s Lennon covers album, Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur.
Christina Aguilera, Aerosmith and Jack Johnson will also feature on the album which is out on May 25th. The publishing royalties have been donated to the cause by Yoko Ono who said:
“It’s wonderful that, through this campaign, music which is so familiar to many people of my era will now be embraced by a whole new generation. John’s music set out to inspire change and, in standing up for human rights, we really can make the world a better place”.
Big Boi from Outkast is set to perform an onstage collaboration with the Atlanta Ballet Company.
The rapper will perform at the opening of the ballet’s new season in April 2008. It is reported that Big Boi will team up with choreographer Lauri Stallings and performers from Purple Ribbon Entertainment. Let’s hope his performance doesn’t stank[onia].
Lupe Fiasco is set to start recording the follow up to his popular Food & Liquor from last year.
The rapper has said his new record will be called The Cool and has a late October release date planned. Lupe has been busy lately, working with Big O from Japan, a remix of Musiq’s Buddy and Kevin Michaels’ upcoming debut record.
He has also noted that he’s working on a project with “another superstar rapper and someone who is a rapper/producer”. Nice.
Strung Out have made their new album’s tracklisting and artwork available.
The album, Blackhawks Over Los Angeles, is due out this June as the follow up to Exile In Oblivion from 2004. The artwork can be seen to the right and the tracklisting is:
1. Calling
2. Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
3. Party In The Hills
4. All The Nations
5. War Called Home, A
6. Letter Home
7. Orchid
8. Dirty Little Secret
9. Downtown
10. King Has Left The Building, The
11. Mission Statement
12. Diver
The Ataris will be playing the Vans Store in London this Friday [May 4th]. Make sure you get along!